Paige
Powell gave a lecture at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on Wednesday,
March 2, 2005, as part of their current exhibition, Andy Warhol's Dream
America.

Powell was both a friend
and employee of Warhol during the
1980s. For part of that time, she was also the girlfriend of the heroin
addicted artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who collaborated with Warhol on
a series of canvasses.

Powell's lecture was covered by the Register-Guard.
Theirarticle about the event
revealed some interesting "information" about Warhol. According
to the article, the artist wore bullet-proof sunglasses.

Powell
was originally from Oregon and previous to her career with Warhol, she
worked as head of publicity at the zoo in Portland where,
according to the Register-Guard, "one of her accomplishments
was the successful marketing of elephant dung as 'zoo doo'."

Paige is mentioned extensively in The Andy Warhol
Diaries - both as a companion during nights out with Warhol and as an employee
of Interview magazine:

Andy Warhol [August 5, 1982]: "I watched Tarzan on
cable and Bo Derek is the worst actress in the world. She was eating a banana,
and she couldn't even eat a banana. It was like she had no teeth. And Susan
Pile told Jon [Gould] that my birthday was actually August sixth and I'd
told him it was on the fifteenth because I thought I could get by it, but
now they're having a party, I think. And I had big fights at the office.
Somebody left food around and I was screaming and I told Paige Powell, our
Interview ad-seller, to go and scream at whoever it was, and it
turned out to be this new kid at Interview who's just so cute
and he's always nice and smiling to me and walks me to the corner to
get my cab
and stuff, and so then I was embarrassed and I denied that I'd told Paige
to do it - I said oh, she must have just been on cocaine or something
- and Robyn repeated the word 'cocaine' to her and she went crazy, and
then I got
mad at Robyn for telling her, and he blamed it all on Jay and
Jay said he didn't do it and I was handing out pink slips like crazy
and I screamed
at Jennifer, the new receptionist girl, because I told her not to give
me coffee in a coffee cup and she did, she said there was nothing else
there
and I screamed that there were plenty of champagne glasses and why didn't
she bring it to me in one of those instead of a crummy old cup that everybody
uses and God, it was one of those days..." (AWD456)

The Andy Warhol's Dream America exhibition continues
at the Jordan
Schnitzer until May 1, 2005. On April 16, 2005 there will be
a free showing of Andy
Warhol's Bad, directed by Jed Johnson, at the Downtown Initiative
for the Visual Arts (DIVA), to coincide with the exhibit. Details on the
Museum's
website at: http://uoma.uoregon.edu/events/calendar/.

The "Back to the Bowery" exhibition opens on Wednesday,
March 9, 2005 at CB's 313 Gallery, located next door to CBGB's - on the
Bowery between 1st
and 2nd Street in Manhattan. The exhibit will
include the work of Billy Name, John Santanello, Walter Steding (artwork
and avant-garde violin),
Fernando
Carpaneda, Roberta Bayley, Mark Sweeney, Mick Rock and Anton Perich.

Billy
Name also recently particpated in the panel on the Warhol era moderated
by Kenneth Goldsmith, author of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy
Warhol Interviews, which took place at The
Kitchen on March 1st.

Billy Name (left) with Gretchen Berg and Kenneth Goldsmith
during the recent
Warhol panel at the Kitchen

A retrospective of Michel Auder's films and videos
will take place at the 11th Biennial of Moving Images in Geneva Switzerland
from
November
11 - 19, 2005. The festival will also be honoring the work of Stan
Brakhage and Raoul Ruiz. Auder was previously married to Warhol star Viva
and various
Warhol stars are featured in much of his work.

An excellent article on
Michel Auder's films by C. Ondine Chavoya appears in the January/February
2005 issue of After Image magazine.
One of Auder's works that Mr. Chavoya examines is the video, Chelsea
Girls with Andy Warhol, 1971-1976.

From Michel Auder: Chronicles and Other
Scenes by C. Ondine Chavoya:

"In Auder's
video, [Brigid] Berlin continually questions Warhol's honesty and
the reliability of his memory. At one point,
she mentions a Bob
Dylan performance, to which Warhol mockingly replies, 'Oh,
you mean, 'Bobby Zimmerman' that Edie [Sedgwick] was going to marry?'
Picking
up on
his derisive tone, Brigid retorts, 'but, you're Warhola!'
Warhol coyly responds, 'Do
you think that's true? Do you think that woman downstairs
is really my mother?' Later, in response to further proddings about
his
sincerity, Warhol
compares himself to Brigid's father, Richard E. Berlin, President
of the Hearst Corporation, 'Your father is exactly like me, making
money from trash,
newspapers.' Aggravation escalates between Brigid and Warhol
when the topic of Pat Ast 'playing her' is raised. Berlin scolds
Warhol for not calling
or visiting Viva since her daughter was born; all the while,
Viva is present witnessing and hearing the telephone conversation,
as Auder records and we
observe. Viva finally enters the conversation and speaks
directly to Warhol, and compares the 'most excruciating pain' of labor
and childbirth
with the
near-fatal gunshot wound Warhol suffered at the hands of
Solanas in 1968 - the spectre of which continually haunts the video.
In another
sequence,
while Larry Rivers interviews Warhol at the Factory on Broadway
in 1976, a commotion erupts as Christopher Makos must ward off a
'crazy woman downstairs...
in an army jacket... trying to get in.' Auder's camera captures
the image of the woman in the foyer through the surveillance camera
monitor prominently
displayed on Warhol's desk. The final scene features Brigid
Berlin reading excerpts from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol at
a reception for the paperback release. She reads from a podium outfitted
with a video monitor
that features
a silent Warhol. Appropriately, the reading and tape end
as the video image of Warhol begins to flicker and finally fades out."

The full text of C. Ondine Chavoya's article on Michel Auder
is available on the After Image website at: www.vsw.org/afterimage.

The
website for the Centre pour L'Image Contemporaine which is hosting
the Biennial of Moving Images is at: www.centreimage.ch.

Andy Warhol

THE BAD PLAYS FESTIVAL

New York Arts Unlimited is seeking submissions for their
Bad Plays Festival due to take place in August to coincide with the annual
HOWL festival in
the East Village. Melba La Rose, who heads the nonprofit multicultural organization,
played the part of Nola Noonan in the original production of Jackie Curtis'
Glamour,
Glory
and Gold. She wants your worst scripts - "the badder the better" -
for possible inclusion in the festival which will be held at the Downeast
Arts
Center,
203 Avenue A (between 12th & 13th Streets). One acts are particularly
welcome, although all plays will be considered. Deadline for submissions
is March 31, 2005. (The deadline was originally the end of February, but
has been extended.) Full details are on the NY Arts Unlimited
website at: www.nyartists.org.